Re: /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp

From: Christian Christmann (plfriko_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 11/20/04

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    Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:50:56 +0100
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:30:11 +0100, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

    > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Christian Christmann wrote:
    >> I've just installed Cyrus-imap and sasl2-bin from the Sarge packages.
    >> Everthing works fine, but in the /var/log/mail.log I get permanently the
    >> error message:
    >> server cyrus/deliver[14580]: connect(/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp) failed:
    >> Permission denied
    >
    > The user that ran cyrdeliver does not have permissions to access the
    > socket.

    It seems that procmail is running cyrdeliver.

    > BTW, 9 times out of 10 if you are using cyrdeliver you're doing things the
    > wrong way. Read the stuff on /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common, and see if you
    > cannot use LMTP instead, it is *much* better.
    >
    >> drwxr-x--- 2 cyrus mail 4096 Nov 20 02:50 .
    > ^^^
    > notice this.

    I can't find any setting for my mailserver. My MTA is exim.
    Can I instead set the permission with "chmod 777" to this directory
    or would this lead to a security problem?

    Chris 

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